Connecting Spheres European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present

by Boxer, Marilyn J.; Quataert, Jean H.; Scott, Joan W.

• ISBN13: 9780195109511
• ISBN10: 0195109511
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In Connecting Spheres, Boxer and Quataert, along with an array of eminent contributors, examine the social history of women within western civilization over the past 500 years. Expanded and updated, this new edition addresses both long-standing and more recent issues which have affectedwomen's lives in modern Europe. These topics include the role of women in public versus private spheres; changes in family life in post-communist Eastern Europe; the impact of religion on the lives of women; the growth of the prostitution sector; the rise of feminism and anti-feminism; and the partfemale sexuality has played impacting women's roles in social and political life. New essays and new, broader general and section introduction by the authors make this text as appropriate and applicable to general survey studies of modern European history as it is for women's history courses.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	x
Foreword to the Second Edition	xi
Joan W. Scott
Foreword to the First Edition	xii
Joan W. Scott
Introduction to the Second Edition: New Connections	1	(4)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
Introduction to the First Edition: Restoring Women to History	5	(14)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
PART I. WOMEN IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA: RELIGIOUS UPHEAVAL, POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION, AND COLONIAL CONQUEST
Overview, 1500--1750	19	(42)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
Family and State in Early Modern France: The Marital Law Compact	61	(12)
Sarah Hanley
A Different New World: Women of Seville in the Age of Exploration	73	(8)
Mary Elizabeth Perry
Women's Work in the Changing City Economy, 1500--1650	81	(12)
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Communities of Women, the Religious Life, and Public Service in Eighteenth-Century France	93	(11)
Olwen Hufton
Frank Tallett
The ``Science'' of Embryology Before the Discovery of the Ovum	104	(60)
Maryanne Cline Horowitz
PART II. WOMEN IN INDUSTRIALIZING, LIBERALIZING, AND IMPERIALIZING EUROPE
Overview, 1750--1890	113	(51)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
``...with the wolf always at the door...'': Women's Work in Domestic Industry in Britain and Germany	164	(10)
Barbara Franzoi Bari
Women and ``Domestic'' Imperial Culture: The Case of Victorian Britain	174	(11)
Antoinette Burton
The Tiresome Work of Conspicuous Leisure: On the Domestic Duties of the Wives of Civil Servants in the German Empire (1871--1918)	185	(9)
Sibylle Meyer
Lyndel Butler
In the Shadows of the Periphery: Italian Women in the Nineteenth Century	194	(10)
Donna Gabaccia
Feminism, Antifeminism, and National Family Politics in Early Third Republic France	204	(62)
Karen Offen
PART III. WOMEN IN THE ERA OF THE INTERVENTIONIST STATE
Overview, 1890 to the Present	215	(51)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
Prostitution, Differentiation, and the World Economy: Nairobi, 1899--1939	266	(9)
Luise White
Soldier's Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War	275	(14)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Lesbian Sexuality in Interwar France	289	(6)
Carolyn J. Dean
The Russian Revolution and Women	295	(11)
Richard Stites
Gender and the Austrian Fraternal Welfare State After 1945	306	(9)
Gerda Ruth Neyer
Conclusion: The Rebirth of Feminism and Its Challenges	315	(4)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
Contributors	319	(4)
Index	323